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Don Sheu

Don Sheu

Co-GP at Apertu Capital

Seattle, Washington, United StatesVenture Capital & Private Equity
Company
Apertu Capital
Title
General Partner
Seniority
Partner
Department
C Suite
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States
Industry
Venture Capital & Private Equity

About

Apertu Capital (www.apertucapital.com) is a specialized venture capital fund where the co-founders have operational backgrounds that include founding software companies. The fund is investing in deeptech and solely focuses on pre-seed and seed investments in cloud, data, infrastructure, developer tools, and tools for AI.

Experience

General Partner

Apertu Capital · United States

Present

Investing in cloud, data, infrastructure, developer tools, and tools for AI. Specialized fund building with technical founders.

Open Source Community Building

Don Sheu · United States

Present

Built one of the largest open source communities in the world. Organized PyCon Startup Row 2013 to 2018. Produced 25 Startup Row pitch events for early stage startups, held in North America and Europe. Led volunteer teams comprised of engineers to put on complex, large turnout events.

Fellow of the Python Software Foundation

Python Software Foundation

Present

Selected to join the Python Software Foundations roster of Fellows. Less than 300 fellows recognized in a universe of millions of software professionals working primarily with the Python programming language.

Managing Director

10two1 · Greater Seattle Area

Offering engineering branch office in a box for fast growing startups seeking to establish a presence in Seattle.

Founder

Puget Sound Programming Python (PuPPy) User Group · Seattle, WA

Seattle's largest community of engineers using the Python programming language and tech tools.

Co-Founder

PyCascades · Pacific Northwest

Conference featuring the Python programming language and its community.

Co-Chair Startup Row

PyCon US

Global program featuring founders and startups at Python's global conference PyCon.

Co-Founder

Startups

Co-founder of several software companies encompassing telehealth, corporate training, payments, and hiring.

Education

Columbia University

History, East Asia -- Chinese, Korean, and Japanese Languages

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